The English Movies Thread (No Spoilers Please)

This is a discussion on The English Movies Thread (No Spoilers Please) within Shifting gears, part of the Around the Corner category; Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Rating: 3/5
A rinse-n-repeat kind of action movie. Wrongly convicted he has to find the ...

A rinse-n-repeat kind of action movie. Wrongly convicted he has to find the people behind it, clear his name and protect his dear ones. There is nothing much to the movie. Go watch the it if you are utterly bored and there is nothing else to do.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Had decent expectations but were let down. Tom Cruise looks utterly bored and lacks the intensity. The movie was a drag.Rating: 2/5

Overfed & Undernourished:A brilliant documentary about the 'convenience food' that people in developed nations consume and which we in India have now started to do the same. Thought provoking.
Rating: 4/5

I loved this movie and would highly recommend. The movie is about coming of age of delinquent kid, who finally finds his place. the dialogues are funny and the movie is shot in a very scenic environment.

You sir are responsible for permanently damaging my brain cells. What in the world did I just watch?

Oh cmon! Mulholland Drive wasn't all that bad. Sure it left a lot to interpret.

All said and done, a straightforward movie trilogy told largely in linear narration style like LOTR warrants 2 viewings to fully comprehend what happened (for one who hasn't read the book). I'd watch the movie again to see what I missed first time around. There are also clues from Lynch himself to enable interpretation of what happened.

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A movie that's rated 8/10 on IMDB and 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.

IMDB scores are no benchmarks. I'd take the first few highly upvoted user reviews in IMDB before watching an unknown movie.

Prometheus is also rated 7.0 (was 7.2 when I saw) and 70+% in Rotten Tomatoes. It was one of the worst movies I ever saw in my life. There's an IMDB user review titled 'Where no idiot has gone before' It best describes how I felt about it. Its from this disaster that I always read through user reviews before attempting.

Mulholland Drive vs Interstellar - I had watched these movies couple of years ago. This is what I had felt.

Mulholland Drive: The director has introduced red herrings in the screenplay which I felt was unnecessary. Rating: 3.5/5

Interstellar: The movie has time travel and hence suffers from Temporal paradox. Leaving it aside, Nolan handles a variety of subjects like 3 generations of family, separation & science fiction part very well. I feel his other movies are one-dimensional (which are focussed only on a particular person). In Interstellar, he had complete freedom to work on many dimensions. Hence I feel this is the best work of Nolan as a director (having watched all his movies). Rating: 4.5/5

Guys comparing Mulholland Drive & Interstellar, if Mulholland Drive was made today it'd come in the league of Predestination simply because of better technology & movie making competence.

It feels like an old movie when one watches it in 2016 and since it IS less visually appealing than Predestination or Interstellar it would always be a notch less.

How many of you have seen Layer Cake by the way? I have it on my laptop and end up watching it once every 2-3 months since the last 5 years now. Editing, Dialogues & of course the Story make this one super movie!

How many of you have seen Layer Cake by the way? I have it on my laptop and end up watching it once every 2-3 months since the last 5 years now. Editing, Dialogues & of course the Story make this one super movie!

Love it.
I'm sure you know about this, but what is Daniels name in the movie.

Dr. Strange - 3/5
It's a little strange and I feel they haven't taken time to build the who multiverse concept. Marvel fans will still like it but on the whole it's nothing great. The dark dimension's lord is called dormammu & all I could think of was - chodna mat pakde rehna from the fevicol ad & hodor hodor
P.S: Wait for credits to roll

A zombie movie that got rave reviews all over ( Korean movie with English subtitles). While it was good one time watch, it was not as spectacular as it was made out to be by the reviews.

It was the first time that I watched a foreign language film, and that does kind of take away the experience of enjoying a movie. Also, I guess the subtitles were not a 100% and I had to read up a little on the web to fully understand the relevance of the first five minutes or so and the origination of the zombie virus as depicted in the movie.